House Republicans are certainly leaving themselves… a noteworthy legacy with how things have gone since January, when the party’s members in the chamber formally took the majority.
Amid fighting to a historically extensive extreme over who would be Speaker and bringing the federal government to the brink of a wide-reaching shutdown over a lack of approved funds now multiple times, Republicans are also harboring an ambition of impeaching Joe Biden for offenses… undetermined.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the House Oversight Committee chairman in this Congress, recently tried to make a big deal out of the president having previously loaned his brother $200,000, which he was then repaid. The GOP idea is something like guilt by association for the separate business dealings in which Biden’s brother was engaged. Does that mean Trump should be considered meaningfully part of the Saudi Arabian government’s human rights abuses on account of the money he’s made from hosting LIV Golf events?
And Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a major, obsessive proponent of impeachment for various administration figures, was trying in recent days to defend the impeachment push as substantively supported by new House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) after all. She relayed the following alleged quote from Johnson: “I’ve explained repeatedly we are doing the methodical investigation that is required of us by the Constitution—but we are quickly nearing an inflection point.” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), a prominent member of the House Judiciary Committee, doesn’t think this is ever happening.
“Let me make you a prediction Marge, it’s NEVER going to happen. Like ever,” Swalwell said on X (formerly Twitter). When would they even have the time? One of the ideas from GOP leadership is another temporary extension of government funding to early next year, which if by some means enacted would just set up the same fights yet again as Republicans keep falling short of either intraparty consensus or something meaningfully supportable by the Democrats whose backing is required because of divided legislative control.
Let me make you a prediction Marge, it’s NEVER going to happen. Like ever. https://t.co/vJUArNPsfE
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) November 12, 2023
